Carol E. Barnett


Carol Edith Barnett is an American composer. She was born in Dubuque, Iowa, and studied at the University of Minnesota with Dominick Argento and Paul Fetler, Bernard Weiser and Emil J. Niosi. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in music theory and composition in 1972 and a masters in theory and composition in 1976.
After completing her education, Barnett went on the road, playing keyboard and singing background vocals with Mexican guitar player Ben Peña, worked as a freelance music copyist, and played in the Children's Theatre pit and various community orchestras.
She married Minnesota Orchestra violist John Tartaglia in 1985.
Barnett was composer-in-residence with the Dale Warland Singers from 1991 to 2001, and an adjunct instructor in music theory and composition at Augsburg College in Minneapolis from 2000 to 2015.
She was awarded the 2003 Nancy Van de Vate International Prize for Opera for her chamber opera, Snow, and her music theater work Meeting at Seneca Falls was featured at the 2006 Diversity Festival in Red Wing, MN. The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass, commissioned in 2006 by VocalEssence and written with Marisha Chamberlain, had its Carnegie Hall debut in February 2013, and has become a favorite across the country.
Barnett is a charter member of the American Composers Forum. She resides in Minneapolis and works as a freelance composer.
WWW carolbarnett.net

Works

Works include:
  • American Kaleidoscope 2010
  • An American Thanksgiving 2003
  • Angelus ad virginem 2010
  • Aprile/April 1997
  • Bega 2011
  • By and By 1995
  • Children of the Heavenly Father 2000
  • Children’Songs SATB, clarinet, piano) 1996
  • Christmas Eve, Bells 1991
  • Cinco Poemas de Bécquer SATB divisi, soprano recorder, guitar, wind chimes) 1979
  • Cindy
  • Concerto for Horn and Orchestra 1985
  • Coy Pond Suite 2014
  • Cyprian Suite 2002
  • Cyprus: First Impressions 2000
  • Dance and Sing 1991
  • Dance of Zálongo 1998
  • The Darkling Thrush 2017
  • The Day of Hope 2004
  • Deep River 1994
  • An Elizabethan Garland 1994
  • Epigrams, Epitaphs SATB, 4-hand piano) 1986
  • Four Chorale Meditations 1982
  • Franklin Credo 1996
  • God Bless the Young Folk 2008/2017
  • Golden Slumbers 1994
  • Great Day 2005
  • Hodie 1998
  • I Sing the Birth 2003
  • Ithaca 2001
  • The King of Yellow Butterflies 1993
  • The Last Invocation 1988
  • Little Potato 1989
  • Many Songs I’ve Heard: Melodies From Eastern Europe 2012
  • March to Glory: “Draw Me Nearer” 2013
  • Marian Variants 2008
  • Meeting at Seneca Falls 1998
  • Mortals & Angels: A Bluegrass Te Deum 2017
  • Most Holy Night 2016
  • Musica, Dei donum optimi 2016
  • My People Are Rising 2017
  • My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord 2001
  • Mythical Journeys 1991
  • Near Odessa 2013
  • Nocturnes for Chamber Orchestra 1980
  • Oh, Yes! 1996
  • One Equal Music 2001
  • Overture to a Greek Drama 1994
  • Piano 1996
  • Pilot Me 2003
  • Praise 2007
  • Prelude and Romp 2008
  • Red River Valley 1991
  • Remember the Ladies 2011
  • Requiem for Treble Voices 1981
  • Safe in the Arms of Jesus 2004
  • Sappho Fragments 2007
  • Shaker Suite: Canterbury 2014
  • Shepherds, Rejoice! 2012
  • Sonata for Horn and Piano 1973
  • Song of Perfect Propriety 2006
  • A Spiritual Journey 1997
  • Steal Away 1995
  • String Quartet #1: Jewish Folk Fantasies 1986
  • Sumervar 1988
  • Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 1994
  • Swedish Lullaby 2012
  • Syncopated Lady 1993
  • Tagore's Lost Star 2017
  • Tirana 2005
  • A Tree Telling of Orpheus 2010
  • Variations, Oh Yes! 2008
  • Variação 2000
  • Verba Ultima 1999
  • Vignettes, After Pierides 2001
  • Veni Sancte Spiritus 2005
  • Voices 1983
  • We Clasp the Hands 2016
  • Winter, Snow 2004
  • Wonder Where 1996
  • The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass 2006
Her music has been recorded and issued on CD, including:
  • Mortals & Angels: A Bluegrass Te Deum CD VocalEssence
  • Treasures from the Archive CD Navona, ASIN: B00MHIKUSU
  • Voices of Earth & Air: Works for Chorus CD Navona, ASIN: B00DJSUNU2
  • Choral Currents CD Innova
  • Zeitgeist: Here and Now CD Innova
  • Christmas a Cappella: Songs from Around the World CD Cedille Records, ASIN: B001E1BO86
  • The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass Audio CD Clarion, ASIN: B000XLQGNQ
  • Piccolo Four Hands CD Piccalota Productions
  • Souvenirs De La France Profonde CD Yale Schola Cantorum, ASIN: B00G6SBM16
  • Cyprus: First Impressions CD Innova, ASIN: B000FFP0BY
  • Harvest Home: Songs from the Heart CD Gothic, ASIN: B000B8QFBY
  • Christmas with the Dale Warland Singers CD Innova
  • Cantate Hodie: Bach Choir of Pittsburgh CD Gothic
  • Orchestral Miniatures: Volume V Contemporary American CD Mmc Records, ASIN: B00004TV6E
  • Syncopated Lady Audio CD Capstone, ASIN: B00000JLD5
  • My Soul’s Delight CD Concordia Recordings, ASIN: B00005YB83
  • Blue Wheat: A Harvest of American Folk Songs CD Gothic
  • Heartbeats: New songs from Minnesota for the AIDS Quilt Songbook CD Innova, ASIN: B000004AFA